"When they learn that people aren't a danger to them, they become very brazen."
Even more brazen are the Brat Castards holding agency jobs who made the following statements complied from just this one article.
1. "We've had quite a few attacks," she continued, "but people don't typically get seriously hurt." Allow citizens to shoot coyotes when and where they wish before someone is killed. What's hard to understand about that, SpokesPerson Bernard?
2. "That's the last stage before a human attack," Curtis said. "And we're at that stage in New York now." Why haven't you allowed NY citizens to shoot coyotes as they see fit? Or are you planning on a bureaucracy to "control" coyotes?
3. "If they persist in aggressive behavior, the ultimate solution would probably be to remove problem animals," Curtis said. "Nobody is happy about that." Spoken just like a PETAPerson or an animal rights 'activist.
Happiness of such trash be d*mned - classify 'em as varmints and shoot them.
By the way, a friend tells me that when some 50 coyote were mouthing off around their ranch house one night, her Irish wolfhound finally was irritated enough to give one very loud bark - and silence reigned the rest of the night.
Moral: Wolfhounds cure coyote problems.